Welsh UFO Sightings 1844

Welsh UFO sightings from 1844. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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January 1844
Llawrglyn, Tref Eglwys

The residents of Gwernau farm were being terrorised by a ghost that managed to rack up some £10 worth of destruction in 1844. Plates rattled on the shelves, all the bread was ground to powder, and 'the servant girl's clothes were seen dropping from her person as if by magic.' Preachers and conjurers tried to rid the house of the spirit, to no avail, until finally the servant girl left and seemingly took it with her: she stated that a mouse went before her and laughed like a human.

The North Wales Chronicle (27/02/1844) felt the girl was likely guilty, and also recommended that funds being raised by the Wesleyan Church should be spent in the area to help enlighten its inhabitants...

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PRESS
March 1844
St Woolos Churchyard, Newport

The Monmouthshire Merlin (30/03/1844) reported that somebody had been dressing up 'in a hideous mask and female's apparel' and trying to scare people in St. Woolos Cemetary. The paper noted with hope that he was bound to soon be apprehended, and hoped he received a 'stout cudgelling' into the bargain!

A DISGUISED FOOL - Several timid females, and not a few stout-hearted men, have been almost frightened out of their wits, on dark moonless nights, by some fool who takes uncommon pleasure in disguising himself in a hideous mask, and female's apparel, and rushing out upon unwary passers-by, from the porch, or some other hiding place, in Saint Woollos church yard. We hope the fellow will not only get a stout cudgelling some night on which he plays off such dangerous pranks, but be captured by the place, and locked up in the cell of the Station, there to ruminate on his absurd folly. A gentleman with a good stick in hand, to whom this apparition presented itself, soon vanished, or the gentleman would presently have "laid the ghost."